As far as features, I found this blog entry from Bill Staples (the big kahuna for IIS 7) very educational. He lists all the ways to get the new features of IIS 7 - now that the modular architecture allows the team to ship components ..... more »

This book guides you beyond the networking technology and concepts you already know and teaches you the crucial new features of IIS 7 that will help you succeed with this dramatically different Web server. ..... more »

In it, he has quite a few arguments why something like Silverlight (and Flex for that matter) will never amount to anything. I disagree with almost all of his points, but one stuck with me more: the inability to do deeplinking... more »

A coworker of mine has posted an issue on Microsoft’s Connect site, which is a gateway to presenting MS software issues directly to the developers of MS products, regarding the Silverlight web development platform. ..... more »

This past week Microsoft released Silverlight 2.0 beta2, however installing the new version hasnt always been the easiest thing to do. After struggling away and getting install errors here my advice on the best way to get SL2 Beta 2 ..... more »

how can i realize a menu like this in Blend? my problem is, that the "motion path" -function like in an WPF application isn't available in silverlight. I'm not very fimiliar with javascript, so that it would be great to realize this ..... more »

The HP DL-160 and Dell 1950 servers required several updates throughout our six-week test period to accommodate the CPU throttling features of Windows 2008 and Linux. We truly know from the trenches that it really isn't easy getting ..... more »

Summary: I am publishing SMTP service to the web. ... I have set up a filter to block access to this service form a group of ip ranges. ... Can spammers do something to the packets fulling ISA server into thinking that these packets ..... more »

"iPhone 3G supports Microsoft Exchange ActiveSync right out of the box, runs the incredible third party apps created with the iPhone SDK, and will be available in more than 70 countries around the world this year." ..... more »

When initializing a remote procedure call (RPC) to the Microsoft Exchange Active Directory Topology service, Exchange could not retrieve the SID for account Microsoft Exchange,CN=Services ..... more »

I’ve seen this before but it was interesting to see it on Monday afternoon, just hours after the Microsoft folks gave what can only be described as a weak SharePoint demo. Why didn’t they show Social Sites, since they included other ..... more »

From SharePoint Brain Freeze ... The SharePoint Smart 404 project provides enhanced 404 support and support for vanity URL's. More Codeplex. Mark Harrison... more »

The 2008 Microsoft Game Studios Yearbook chronicles the graduates, like the soon-to-be released Ninja Gaiden II, and the titles that didn’t make it to grad, like Alan Wake. Yep, he had to be held back for a semester or two. ..... more »

Yahoo and Microsoft talks are going away, but don't expect billionaire investor Carl Icahn to do likewise, said one source familiar with the investor activist. Icahn, who last month launched a proxy fight to unseat Yahoo's board and ..... more »

"iPhone 3G supports Microsoft Exchange ActiveSync right out of the box, runs the incredible third party apps created with the iPhone SDK, and will be available in more than 70 countries around the world this year." ..... more »

Microsoft Exchange Support: Mail, Address Book, and iCal will receive built-in, out-of-the-box support for Microsoft Exchange 2007.Multicore: “Grand Central” is a set of new technologies built into Mac OS X that allows developers to ..... more »

Even yesterday, the company had not released details on either pricing or retail availability, though it did say the device would support Microsoft Exchange ActiveSync and urn third-part applications already built. ..... more »

The new OS adds the ability to synchronise with Microsoft Exchange which is definitely a big plus and will help find many new users. Being someone who spends a lot of their time online you cannot beat the browser experience achieved ..... more »

By Elise Ackerman Kaiser Permanente on Monday announced a major test of Microsoft's HealthVault, a free Web site for storing personal health information that is intended to give individuals control of their medical records. ..... more »

After months of little word on a fix regarding Microsoft'sHome Server 2007, which corrupted a variety of files due to unfortunateproblems in the underlying system architecture, DailyTech finallybrought news of some good tidings from ..... more »